Article carrier



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United States- Patent ARTICLE CARRIER Edwin L. Arneson, Morris, 1.,assignor to Morris Paper Mills, Chicago, 111., a corporation of IllinoisApplication August 22, 1951, Serial No. 243,058

Claims. (Cl. 220113) The present invention relates to an improvedflexible paperboard carrier for bottles and other articles of uniformsize and shape. More particularly, it is an object of the invention toprovide such a carrier having its interior subdivided into cells byvertical, longitudinally and transversely extending partition members,of which the former are in part of six ply thickness, including twopairs of handle panels disposed in side-by-side relation to one another,and the latter comprise cross partition elements disposed on either sideof the longitudinal partition and integrally hinged at one end to thetwo innermost plies thereof.

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved article carrierof the foregoing description which features a very strong and rigidhandle of at least four ply thickness and a longitudinal partition panelconstituted by the two intermediate plies of the handle, theseintermediate plies each having a flexibly articulated series of crosspartition panels integrally hinged thereto and adapted to extendoutwardly beneath outer pair of plies of the handle to the respectiveopposed side walls of the carrier, to which certain panel elements ofthe respective series are adhesively secured, thereby to constitute across partition structure which subdivides the space on each side of thelongitudinal partition into at least three article receiving cells.

Yet another object of the invention is to provide a flexible paperboardblank for an article carrier of the foregoing type.

The foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of the natureof the invention. Other and more specific objects will be apparent tothose skilled in the art upon a full understanding of the constructionand operation of the device.

A single embodiment of the invention is presented herein for purpose ofillustration and it will be appreciated that the invention may beincorporated in other modified forms coming equally within the scope ofthe appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a flexible paperboard blank employed inmanufacturing the improved carrier, illustrating the manner in which theblank is died out, cut creased and preliminarily glued;

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating the blank of Fig. 1 in the conditionthereof following a first folding operation and showing a furtherapplication of adhesive;

Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views illustrating the article followingsuccessive later folding and gluing manipulations;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the improved carrier in completed, knocked downcondition;

Fig. 6 is a view in horizontal section along a line corresponding toline 66 of Fig. 7, showing the completed carrier in erected conditionand indicating the extremely rigid, multiple thickness construction ofthe handle thereof;

Fig. 7 is a view in longitudinal vertical section along 2,717,098Patented Sept. 6, 1955 line 7--7 of Fig. 6, further illustrating detailsof internal construction of the carrier; and

Fig. 8 is a view in transverse vertical section along line 88 of Fig. 7,showing the full depth article protection afforded by the improvedcarrier.

Referring now to Fig. l of the drawings, the flexible paperboard blank10 from which the improved carrier is fabricated is symmetric about alongitudinally extending line represented by a medial crease 11 in itscentral bottom forming section 12, the section'12 being subdivided bythis crease into two like, generally rectangular panels 13. In view ofthe symmetric character of the blank, only the parts appearing on oneside of the medial crease 11 will be described, on the understandingthat all parts and relationships of parts on the opposite side are thesameand are designated by corresponding reference numerals.

A longitudinally extending crease 14, which coincides with a side marginof the bottom section blank, serves to flexibly hinge to the bottompanel 13 a side wall forming panel 16 of rectangular outline. Parallelcreases 17, 18 at to crease 14 hingedly connect to the side wall panel16 a pair of generally similar end wall panels 19, 20, re-

spectively. A longitudinal partition flap 21 is hingedly hinged flap 23is partially separated from flap 23 by a U-shaped slit 26 formed oncrease 24 adjacent the upper portion thereof, for a purpose to bedescribed.

An upper extension 18' of end wall-side wall crease 18 serves as a hingefor a transverse strap 27, which is separated from the side wall panel16 by a horizontal slit 28. The opposite end of strap 27 is integrallyhinged by a short crease 29 onto one end of a handle panel 30 which isof generally rectangular outline. At the opposite end of panel 30 anupwardly and outwardly angled slit 31 separates the same from theopposite end wall 19, and material is removed from the blank at 32 toseparate panel 30 from the side wall 16 and end wall 19 between theslits 28, 31. Both of these slits extend into and merge with the lowermargin of opening 32.

Handle panel 30 is hingedly articulated to the longitudinal partitionflap 21 by a short extension 22" of the end wall-flap crease 22. Panel30 has a handhole 34 of conventional sort formed therein.

Handle panel 30 is integrally hinged along its upper margin toa furtherhandle and longitudinal partition defining panel 35 by means of alongitudinally extending crease 36. This panel also has a handhole 37formed therein, and it includes an outwardly extending longitudinalpartition panel member 38 of reduced width as an integral uncreasedextension thereof. Panel 38 is inwardly recessed from the left of theblank, as indicated at 39 and has hingedly articulated to the opposite,right hand end margin thereof, by means of a transversely extendingcrease 40, an articulated series 41 of cross partition panel elements.These include a first cross partition element 42 joined to panel member38 by crease 40, a second panel element 43 joined to panel 42 by atransverse crease 44, and a third cross partition element 45 integrallyhinged to the second or intermediate panel 43 by means of a transversecrease 46. End cross partition element 45 carries a glue lap 47,integrally hinged thereto by a transverse crease 48.

Wardly about crease 44, causing the glue lap 47 to adhere to thelongitudinal partition panel 38. This leaves the blank in the conditionillustrated in Fig. 2.

Next, adhesive is applied to the exposed upper surface of panel element43 and to the handle panel 35, as stippled in Fig. 2, whereupon panel 35and appended cross partition structure 41 is folded upwardly, inwardlyand downwardly about longitudinal handle crease 36, to the positionillustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, in which the panels 30, 35 areadhered together and the partition panel element 43 is adhered to sidewall panel 16.

After this the longitudinal partition flap 23 is partially coated withadhesive and the strap 27 is coated, as shown by stippling in Fig. 3.End wall panel 20 and flap 23 are then folded upwardly, inwardly anddownwardly about crease 18 to adhere the flap to handle panel 35 and thestrap to the end wall, the article now being as shown in Fig. 4.Adhesive is now applied to one of the infolded longitudinal partitionand handle members 35 and to the upper exposed surface of partitionflaps 21 and 23, as

illustrated by stippling in Fig. 4, and the glued blank is then foldedabout its medial bottom section crease 11 to the completed conditionillustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, in which the pair of inner handleand longitudinal partition plies 35, as well as the respective pairs offlaps 21, 23 are firmly secured to one another.

The blank is erected to the article receiving position illustrated inFig. 6 by applying compressive force to its opposite end margins,represented by the creases 18, 22 on each of the carton sections 15. Theshaped slit 26 in the longitudinal partition flap 23 at the crease line24 avoids hindrance to movement of cross partition panel 42 as it movesaway from the longitudinal partition into 90' relation to thelongitudinal partition panel 38, extending to the side wall panel 16.Referring to Figs. 6 and S,

it is seen that a very rigid, board-like handle, generally designated50, is aiforded, while the cross partition element constituted by panels42 and 45 of structure 41 furnish full depth article protection forbottles disposed in the carrier. This cross partition structure is veryfirmly anchored at its opposite ends in the longitudinal partition andhandle structure, by means of the integral hinge 40 and the glue lap 47which is built into the longitudinal partition structure, as shown inFigs. 6 and 7. The carrier is a very sturdy and rugged one indeed, andthe blank 10 fromwhich it is fabricated may be processed withoutdifliculty'on existing folding and gluing machinery.

Iclaim:

l. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank comprising a side wallforming panel having end wall panels hinged by transverse creases toopposed end margins thereof, a handle panel separated by a cut from saidside wall forming panel and integrally hinged by means includingtransverse creases to margins of said respective end wall panels, and ahandle and partition defining unit hinged by a longitudinal crease to amargin of said handle panel remote from said side wall forming panel,said last named unit including a handle panel immediately adjoining saidlongitudinal crease, a longitudinal partition forming panel integralwith said last named handle panel, and a cross partition structureincluding a series of at least three panels integrally hinged bytransverse creases to a margin of said longitudinal partition panel andto one another.

2. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank in accordance with claim1, in which said means integrally hinging said first named handle panelto said end wall panels includes a strap separated by a cut from saidside wall forming panel and integrally hinged at its ends to said firstnamed handle panel and to one of said end wall panels.

3. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank comprising a side wallforming panel having end wall panels hinged by transverse creases toopposed end margins thereof, a handle panel integrally hinged by meansincluding transverse creases to margins of said respective end wallpanels, and a handle and partition defining unit hinged by a.longitudinal crease to a margin of said handle panel remote from saidside wall forming panel, said last named unit including a handle panelimmediately adjoining panels, units and structures defined in claim 3,and a bottom forming panel disposed between and integrally connected bylongitudinal creases to corresponding margins of said side Wall panels.

5. A flexible paperboard article carrier blank in accordance with claim3, in which said means integrally hinging said first named handle panelto said end wall panels includesa strap separated by a cut from saidside wall forming panel and integrally hinged at its ends to said firstnamed handle panel and to one of said end wall panels.

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